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bastard

adjective
(1) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate.
(2) Not genuine; adulterated; ersatz.

noun A popular term for an extremely unpleasant, rude and/or malicious person.

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But part of what I am arguing is that what Fielding actually offers is a division between Tom's "real" character and an overreaction to his admittedly imprudent or immoral actions, exacerbated by his bastardly reputation.

Escaping type: Nonreferential character and the narrative work of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones

The dead, spray-painted grass was atrocious--a bastardly approximation of the beauty we had lost.

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Thus, after 1588, Griffin argues, the ethos of Spanish cruelty in Inquisition and conquest became coupled with Spanish "darkness," the ethnos of its '"most bastardly'" origins as a nation composed of no one single race but as an admixture of Roman, African, Moor, and Jew.